Todd Haynes's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's
early novel stars Cate Blanchett as the titular Carol, a wealthy suburban wife and mother, and Rooney Mara as an aspiring photographer.
Not exact matches
In the
early 1820s a
novel way was devised of successfully presenting both the
stars and the constellation patterns.
We learned
earlier this year that the Sunshine and 28 Days Later scribe was tackling an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's brilliantly terrifying enviro - horror
novel Annihilation for his second directorial effort, with Natalie Portman
starring to boot.
HBO is developing an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic
novel Fahrenheit 451, and while the project is still in
early stages, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon are already attached to
star.
We've been waiting quite some time to see anything besides still photos from The Rum Diary, in which Johnny Depp
stars as Paul Kemp, essentially a stand - in for Hunter S. Thompson as seen in Thompson's
early novel The Rum Diary.
Here's today's latest casting news: Denzel Washington (Man on Fire) is in
early talks to
star in Shovel Ready, a Warner Bros. adaptation of journalist Adam Sternbergh's debut dystopian
novel.
Many of the
novels mentioned
earlier were also filmed during this period: Arthur Penn directed a film of Little Big Man (1970), Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times (aka The Bad Man from Bodie, 1967) became a film
starring Henry Fonda, and True Grit was made in 1969 with John Wayne.
The film's makers, including director R.J. Cutler and screenwriter Shauna Cross (working from Gayle Forman's
novel), are clearly playing to a target audience — the same folks who lined up
earlier this summer for the vastly superior The Fault in Our
Stars — though they do so with dismayingly little effort to freshen up the formula.
James Ivory wrote the screenplay, adapted from the Andre Aciman
novel about a young man's sexual coming of age in Europe in the
early 1980s,
starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg.
Interesting little melodrama based on a
novel by Arthur Roth and
starring Robert Mitchum as Dermot O'Neil, a young IRA man who begins to regret his decision to become involved in an attack on Britain in the
early years of the Second World War.
Early reviews are starting to come in for Francis Lawrence's 2018 spy thriller, Red Sparrow,
starring Jennifer Lawrence and based on the 2013
novel.
BleeckerStreet's On Chesil Beach
starring Saoirse Ronan and based on Ian McEwan's
novel about a young English couple in the
early 1960s whose idyllic courtship leads to an awkward and fateful wedding night isn't doing so hot at four New York and Los Angeles theaters, with a $ 38K projected weekend, $ 9,5 K per screen.
Earlier this month, fans of John Green's iconic young adult (YA)
novel The Fault in Our
Stars lined up to be the first to see its newly released movie adaptation.
Soon afterward, I scored a
starred review from Kirkus Reviews and five -
star ratings from five separate critics who reviewed the
novel early on Readers» Favorite.
(For those who wonder, for 2017 /
early 2018 it's six books in my soon - to - be-launched Sky Full of
Stars series, Chains of Honor 3 and maybe 4, and four Ruby Lionsdrake space romance
novels that I'll be doing as part of a shared world project with another SFR author.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a
starred review: «Hoffman's
novel is a coming - of - age tale replete with magic and historical references to the
early witch trials.